Also three men of the inferior sort we saved in our boat. Only these two we clothed, and brought into England. The rest, which were taken up by the other ships' boats, we set all on shore in the Isle of Flores: except some two or three Negroes; whereof one was born in the Mozambique, and another in the East Indies. * * * * * This fight was open off the Sound between Fayal and Pico; six leagues to the southward. The people which we saved told us, That the cause why they would not yield was because this Carrack was for the King; and that she had all the goods belonging to the King in the country [_India_] for that year in her; and that the Captain of her was in favour with the King; and at his [next] return into the Indies, should have been Viceroy there. And withal this ship was nothing at all pestered; neither within board, nor without: and was more like a Ship of War than otherwise. Moreover, she had the ordnance of a Carrack that was cast away at Mozambique, and the [Ship's] Company of her: together with the [Ship's] Company of another Carrack that was cast away a little to the eastward of the Cape of _Buona Speranza_. Yet through sickness, which they caught at Angola, where they watered; they said, They had not now above 150 white men: but negroes, a great many. They likewise affirmed that they had three Noblemen and three Ladies in her: but we found them to differ in most of their talk. * * * * * All this day [14th June 1594] and all the night she burned: but, next morning, her powder, which was lowest, being 60 barrels, blew her abroad; so that most of the ship did swim in parts above the water. * * * * * Some of them say, That she was bigger than the _Madre de Dios_; and some, That she was less. But she was much undermasted, and undersailed [_carrying too little sail_]: yet she went well for a ship that was so foul. The shot which we [in the _Samson_] made at her in great ordnance, before we lay her aboard, might be at seven bouts [_broadsides_] which we had, and 6 or 7 shot at a bout, one with another, some 49 shots. The time we lay aboard [the Carrack] might be two hours. The shot which we discharged [while] aboard the Carrack, might be [that of] some 24 sakers. And thus much may suffice concerning our dangerous conflict with that unfortunate Carrack. * * * * * The last of June [1594], after long traversing of the seas, we had sight of another mighty Carrack; which divers of our Company, at the first, took to be the great _San Philip_, the Admiral [_or Flag Ship_] of Spain; but the next day, being the 1st of July [1594], fetching her up, we perceived her indeed to be a Carrack: which, after some few shot bestowed upon her, we summoned to yield; but they, standing stoutly to their defence, utterly refused the same.